SunTomato

Tam -- 30+ -- She/Her Generally clueless. Strong feelings for chocolate, 1D, Roswell, and fic. Just say something nice. It's so easy. My avatar/icon was created by lovely Londonfoginacup ❤️

[sun-tomato]

Twice to Keep Your Soul by SunTomato

Relationships: Michael Guerin/Alex Manes

Characters: Alex Manes, Michael Guerin, Original Characters, Max Evans, Isobel Evans, Kyle Valenti, Anatsa Mufaro, Liz Ortecho, Rosa Ortecho, Arturo Ortecho, Flint Manes, Jesse Manes

Themes & Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, No Smut, POV Alex Manes, Angst with a Happy Ending

(Plenty of other warning tags on AO3, so mind them please!)

Words: 36,807

Summary:

When Alex Manes is sent to the desert to infiltrate a religious cult, it's to investigate rumors of an "explosive and volatile" weapon. Whatever he expected to find out there, it wasn't this. Nothing could have prepared him for Michael Guerin.

Written for @rnmbigbang 2024, with amazing GIFs created by @miniastrophysicist who somehow managed to capture the scenes exactly as I pictured them! Thank you for coming on this crazy ride with me <3

[moghedien]

I feel like I need to share this because idk if Europeans are familiar with the presence of Aldi in the US, but at least especially in my area they’ve been growing a lot recently. Like Aldi bought out some local failing grocery chains where I live (Louisiana) and have opened Aldis in all these somewhat rural communities and small towns, which for the record I’m fine with

But as a result of this they are advertising a lot more in my area and also in many cases, the people in these areas have never been confronted with Aldi or any European grocery store. So the ads that Aldi is pushing out to its new US customer base feature a cowboy shopping at Aldi who is explaining to new Aldi customers how Aldi works. Like this cowboy is explaining you gotta put a quarter in the shopping cart and why there are very little name brands. A cowboy is how they want to reach their American customer base. They gave us a cowboy

[moghedien]

Here he is, the Aldi Cowboy

[lone-pylon]

hey, you, you're finally awake

[botanyshitposts]

scientists in the 1990s, putting a Get More Purple gene attached to a harmless plant virus into an already purple petunia: please get more purple

the petunia, sensing an apparent honest to god Get More Purple Disease, using the previously undiscovered RNAi antiviral ability to shut down all other purple genes along with it just in case: you put VIRUS in petunia? you infect her with the More Purple?? oh! oh! her children shall bloom white! jail for mother, jail for mother for One Thousand Years!!!!

[flipocrite]

[clickityweasel]

[catboybiologist]

Btw the thing this discovered is like. A foundational lab technique now and has revolutionized genetics

[beardedmrbean]

One more in the W column for Japan.

[shaneybby]

shane hollander, eight years old. paint me a picture.

... I don't know probably just having fun

[itshype]

Quick question. When someone asks what age you were in a certain year do you give the age that you were before or after your birthday that year?

Do you give the younger or older of the two ages you were that year?

I give the younger (age before your birthday in a given calendar year)

I give the older (age after your birthday in a given calendar year)

Voting ended onMay 15

[canthaveshitingotham-crucified]

i hate it when i cant even write a poem about something because its too obvious. like in the airbnb i was at i guess it used to be a kids room cause you could see the imprint of one little glow in the dark star that had been missed and painted over in landlord white. like that's a poem already what's the point

[canthaveshitingotham-crucified]

you get it. you get the themes. i dont have time to do it justice. just look at it its on the ceiling

[brenna]

[teaboot]

[wheresmyphonemp3]

[fadingponycookiedream]

[andsorrowsend]

[werefeathers]

[spontaneousmusicalnumber]

In The Road to El Dorado there is only really one inexplicable thing within the plot. Miguel and Tulio plausibly bluff their way through or slip out of most situations. However, I’d never figured out why the volcano actually stops erupting when Tulio commands it. 

The conclusion I finally came up with is that the actual gods were watching their big entrance go down, and thought “oh, this’ll be hilarious”

[sweetvantass]

theres a lot of evidence throughout the movie to say that the armadillo (whose name is bibo) is a god.

they first find him in the jungle, where an armadillo has no business being

they find the entrance to the city, while being followed by him

he is present when the volcano starts to erupt (previous concept art also showed him in the background actually stopping the eruption)

miguel and tulio sucked ass at the ball game, so they used Bibo as a ball. He ricocheted himself all over the place and defied physics to get into the hoop every time

they come up with the flood plan to stop cortez when bibo pushed a glass over in front of them

[famouslysleepy]

YOUR TELLING ME THEY USED GOD AS A BASKETBALL?

[toast-the-unknowing]

the bad news: I now hate my current wip and strongly believe there isn't a single joke in it that lands

the good news: I know my process enough to recognize this as the slump that I hit in everything I write when it's like three-quarters-ish done

the bad news: the only way out is through

the good news: I do know the way out!

the bad news: yeah but it's through

[toast-the-unknowing]

making a cross stitch that says "I am funny and he would fucking say that" to hang directly above my monitor

[toast-the-unknowing]

"hey toast you stayed up past midnight because you were working on the fic and not because you were procrastinating by making a hideous pattern for a joke cross stitch" have you never met a writer before

[toast-the-unknowing]

gonna tell my kids this was live laugh love

[ravioliet]

god's weakest soldier is scrolling tumblr instead of being productive or participating in any of their hobbies

[ravioliet]

to everyone in the notes saying this is mean or rude or a callout, this post was autobiographical. we're in this together. take my paw

[drawballa]

Sleepy boys 💤

[shaneybby]

HOLLANDER V ROSANOV

... mma au anyone?

[emil]

the butterfly doesnt even have to be saved next question

[hyvee]

This is so funny. I’d kill all billionaires if it meant losing something precious to me

[sun-tomato]

here i am… in the year 2026…. finding out that you’re velvetoscar… aka mizwilde… aka the creator of what used to be one of my fav tumblr accounts! i LOVED your writing account!! so glad to have found a blog where you’re active on <333

I wish I could claim their writing, as it's brilliant and I love it so much, but alas I am not velvetoscar. I did write Life of Payne based on Gods&Monsters, from Liam's pov, which is why they are listed as co-author on it. But I don't know if they still have an active account somewhere (maybe some of my mutuals know?).

[puncertainty]

its funny because i drew this at work while pretending to work

[roseroyalty-moving]

when u touch an unaware cat and they make that small surprised sound reblog if u agree

[roseroyalty-moving]